In August 2020, the UAE became the first Arab nation in many years to take the bold step and announce a peace treaty with Israel. September marks the second anniversary of the signing of the first Accords—the groundbreaking normalization agreements between Israel and the Gulf nations of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Treaties between other Arab nations and Israel followed—treaties with a country whose name hadn’t even appeared on maps in the region.
I remember when I first…